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Born in February 24, 1914 / Died in July 18, 1955 / United States / English

Poems by Weldon Kees

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The Doctor Will Return

... I picked some once and pressed them in a book ...

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The Beach

... And then, in darkness, cuts his throat ...

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Interregnum

... Then drill your hogs and sons for another war ...

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1926

... And I am back from seeing Milton Sills ...

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A Distance From The Sea

... To Ernest Brace"And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was ...

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Year's End

... Yet you, A year cold, come more living to this room ...

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Dead March

... stia. (Old saboteurs, controlled by Trotsky'sScheming and unconquered ghost, still threaten Novgorod ...

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The Upstairs Room

... The drift Of autumn fires and a century's cigars, that gun's ...

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The End Of The Library

... When the coal Gave out, we began ...

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A Musician's Wife

... The records the critics praised and nobody bought ...

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Robinson

... Shelves, bed, the tinted photograph of Robinson's first wife, ...

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The Smiles Of The Bathers

... The scholar, closing his book as the midnight clock strikes, is hollow ...

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Late Evening Song

... Grown dead, gone gray,That burned in other rooms I knew ...

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The Furies

... Whose crutches shriek on the sidewalk ...

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The Bell From Europe

... The kind words, friends for drinks, the books we read, ...